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| Department of Corrections hiring freeze leaves 348 jobs vacant during state budget shortfall |
| By tulsaworld.com- Samantha Vicent |
| Published: 02/27/2017 |
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The Oklahoma Department of Corrections has instituted a hiring freeze that will leave nearly 350 positions vacant in a effort to save money during another budget shortfall, plus a plan to forestall furloughs to mitigate safety risks to the public, staff and inmates. Although the freeze excludes corrections officers, probation and parole workers, medical staff and food service employees, DOC Director Joe Allbaugh said in a statement Thursday that the move hurts an agency that is “already cut to the bone financially.” The DOC was ordered to cut nearly $3 million from its budget before July 1, the end of fiscal year 2017, and Allbaugh suggested the hiring freeze will be one of several actions. DOC spokesman Alex Gerszewski told the Tulsa World on Friday that the freeze will change how resources are provided to facilities, hurt the timeliness of reporting serious incidents at prisons and affect the process new inmates undergo when they are evaluated for facility assignments. Read More. |
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